Megascyliorhinus cooperi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MegascyliorhinusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 340 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 25 occurrencesEocene — about 6 of 25 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 25 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 10 of 25 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 25 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 25 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–40 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48.07 Mya3 Mya57 Mya0 Mya

25 occurrences of Megascyliorhinus cooperi on record, most of them in the Miocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

25 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

14 formations

Río Baguales — 50.73°S, 72.47°WTangahoe — 39.58°S, 174.28°ELondon Clay — 51.64°N, 0.78°EConcord Greensand — 45.90°S, 170.45°ECaversham Sandstone — 45.90°S, 170.45°ERifle Butts — 45.03°S, 171.03°EOtekaike Limestone — 45.03°S, 170.99°EGee Greensand — 45.20°S, 170.20°EO'Keefe — 41.89°S, 171.48°ERapanui — 39.83°S, 174.61°EClay Creek Limestone — 41.33°S, 175.48°EMarnes de Miretrain — 43.69°N, 1.13°WLillebælt Clay — 55.60°N, 9.81°EKressenberg — 47.93°N, 12.97°E

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The named rock units Megascyliorhinus cooperi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megascyliorhinus cooperi and its relatives

Miocene

Where Megascyliorhinus cooperi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

111 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Megascyliorhinus cooperi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

7 references

Each of the 25 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Megascyliorhinus cooperi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Megascyliorhinus cooperi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Megascyliorhinus cooperi was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cappetta and Ward 1977